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Well, Dee, thank you for being with us again this morning. Your presence is definitely appreciated, and your comments and opinions as well. Definitely appreciated. I agree, and going back to what Grey was mentioning about the chat myself and Kevin had yesterday, he hit the nail exactly on the head, right? I mean, of course crime is going to be down. You've got soldiers in the street, military, and everything else. Of course, criminals are going to be like, I ain't messing with that shit, I'm going to go somewhere else. And the big thing Trump wanted to get rid of was graffiti and the homeless is what it seemed to me. Like, that's what was addressed in this whole thing when he brought in the National Guard and whoever else he brought in. Of course, crime is going to go down. I mean, that's a no-brainer right there. You've got soldiers on the streets. Of course, the criminals are going to tone it down in the meantime. Now, again, I don't know how accurate those numbers were. I mean, how did they figure it out? Are they just comparing it to the same quarter a few years ago? Or what are they doing? But either way, I mean, just because crime is down when they bring in the military, you don't mean that you should turn the whole country into a police state or into a military state. No, I don't think it's necessary to do that. You're taking away people's rights and freedoms. You know, people are not going to, even regular citizens, are not going to feel comfortable moving around in their town if it's inhabited by police. And something else came across my screens lately, too. And you mentioned tourism is way down. The United States' biggest tourism source was Canadians, was freaking Canada. Bad, mean Canada, who's the most difficult country to deal with. And, like, just some of the crap that Trump has said about Canada, who, as far as I've known, has been your closest trading partner and closest ally for over 100 years. And then all of a sudden Trump comes in, he says, oh, we're the worst country to deal with. He has absolutely no extensions on the August 1st deadline and blah, blah, blah. But, yeah, he just extended it for China again. Canadian tariffs are in effect, but China just got another extension. Trump, remember who your friends are, you orange idiot. Like, for real. Like, remember who your friends used to be, I should say. Because Canada right now has a very, very negative opinion of the United States in general. Now, I don't share the view that most of my Canadian brethren share, and that view is the United States is turning into an absolute cesspool. I don't hold, I personally hold no ill will against the American citizens or against most of the current sitting government. The problem that we've got with the current sitting government in the United States is Trump and his inability to analyze situations before he makes decisions that impact not only his own country, but other countries in a very negative way. So tourism is down in the United States from Canada because most Canadians have boycotted the United States. In general, they've boycotted their products. We identify American products on the shelves, so a lot of people are just not buying them. We've seen American products in discount bins at those ones at the end of the aisles, you know, we're trying to get rid of this stuff, buy it cheap, and this stuff is just sitting there for weeks at a time, to the point where a friend of mine who works in retail in grocery stores and stuff, saying they're having to throw away a lot of food that's coming from the United States because people just don't want to buy it. Another thing that came up recently, let me re-check.